[zones-discuss] zone clone zfs best practices?

[Peter Baer Galvin]

Hi, quick question on how best to use zone cloning with zfs.

I've played with creating a master zone and then cloning it before its first 
boot. That seems to work fine.

I'd rather create a master zone, boot it to walk through the smf 
initialization, and then clone it. I'm confused as to how this would work (or 
wouldn't) though. How will the networking in the clone be correct if the master 
has already gone through its sysid configuration? Or do you need to unconfig 
the clone and then sysid config it?

Thanks for any best practice info around this issue.
 
 
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Re: [zones-discuss] zone clone zfs best practices?

[Dan Price]

On Tue 28 Nov 2006 at 08:09PM, Peter Baer Galvin wrote:
 Hi, quick question on how best to use zone cloning with zfs.
 
 I've played with creating a master zone and then cloning it before its
 first boot. That seems to work fine.
 
 I'd rather create a master zone, boot it to walk through the smf
 initialization, and then clone it. I'm confused as to how this would
 work (or wouldn't) though. How will the networking in the clone be
 correct if the master has already gone through its sysid
 configuration? Or do you need to unconfig the clone and then sysid
 config it?
 
 Thanks for any best practice info around this issue.

We automatically sys-unconfig the new zone at clone time-- but that
doesn't affect the SMF manifest import.  So: make your master zone,
boot it, wait for manifest import to finish, then clone away, it should
work just as you want.

-dp

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